The most significant event of your life this far
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Well, just recently I had to end a serious relationship that was pretty important to me. The problems had been pretty obvious for a while and thankfully because of how things had played out it actually wasn't that hard to move on. But actually sitting down and breaking up was still probably the hardest thing I've ever had to do. On the bright side more recently I've started getting involved with someone else and it's been going really, really well. So who knows, maybe that'll end up being even more significant. Can't blame me for hoping.
But in the end I'd have to give the award to the first time I played Myst when I was like 7 or 8. Never before or since has something managed to so clearly show me exactly what I wanted to end up doing with my life. It showed me something entirely different from anything I had seen before, and it's probably the first story I can remember engaging with that strongly. I didn't necessarily understand just how important it was at the time, but looking back I can't think of any other event that had such a profound effect on me.
But in the end I'd have to give the award to the first time I played Myst when I was like 7 or 8. Never before or since has something managed to so clearly show me exactly what I wanted to end up doing with my life. It showed me something entirely different from anything I had seen before, and it's probably the first story I can remember engaging with that strongly. I didn't necessarily understand just how important it was at the time, but looking back I can't think of any other event that had such a profound effect on me.
Getting a job at my local concert venue.
It meant that I after 6 months had a proper place to sleep and I started making money.
It meant that I after 6 months had a proper place to sleep and I started making money.
Gonna definitely go with changing majors. I was Mechanical Engineering for 2 years, but I decided to stop taking my artistic/creative side as some hobby and get serious about it, and I switched to Virtual Technology and Design. I"m now running headlong into the brick wall that is the games industry, hoping that when I get there I somehow manage to break through.
Whatever happens, I'll be ready for a change in direction if I have to, but that decision completely changed my outlook on life and my life goals. I am a different person now than I was those few years ago when I made that pivotal decision.
Whatever happens, I'll be ready for a change in direction if I have to, but that decision completely changed my outlook on life and my life goals. I am a different person now than I was those few years ago when I made that pivotal decision.
Standing on top of the Tooth of Time, and
This was towards the beginning of the first serious backpacking nature hike I ever participated in. We spent a week walking up and down the mountain range arranged to the west of the tooth, even got to see an old WW2 era heavy bomber that had crashed there in 1942, I'm still not actually sure what it was doing there to begin with.
getting kicked out of home when I was in my second year of high school I have met some many people i wouldnt have if i didnt get kicked out
Falling in love with a close friend of mine, pining after her for two years while she dated two of my other friends, finally getting the courage to ask her out, having her reject me, and watching our friendship fall apart bit by bit as she yet again has romantic relationships with friends of mine, cultivating my transformation into the bitter, antisocial bastard that I am. No, I'm not bitter.
On the other, less angsty side of my life, forming a band with two of my close friends has become the best thing in my life. I really love music and I want to form a career out of it.
On the other, less angsty side of my life, forming a band with two of my close friends has become the best thing in my life. I really love music and I want to form a career out of it.
Meeting my best friend. yep.
And maybe when I found out what my true dream was.
I haven't had any other awesome events happen since then.
And maybe when I found out what my true dream was.
I haven't had any other awesome events happen since then.
I think going to uni...In six months I moved out of home, moved 255 miles south (which is pretty big if you consider England is only 838 miles long in the first place). I met my boyfriend, who is a major possitive influence on my life and finally resolved my issues concerning old/changing friendships and my inability to say no or 'get lost' to people.
Other than that...my brother being born, we have a whole language of nostalgic references, stupidity, inside jokes and memories that are awesome!
Other than that...my brother being born, we have a whole language of nostalgic references, stupidity, inside jokes and memories that are awesome!
Failing university first time around. It started a chain reaction of bad shit (unemployment and relative poverty, brief 'homelessness', first love leaving me) that forced me to reassess my entire life. I found out which relationships were worth my time and which weren't. I'm a better person now, and am pretty glad it happened, though it was hellish. If I never have to sleep on another friend's floor I'll die a happy man.
The fact that I've sat here and pondered this for the last five minutes and can't give an answer is probably a bit telling.
Falling in love for the first time and coming face to face with my cowardly inadequacy, not to mention my many other flaws, was pretty intense. Broke me like a twig.
I dropped out and gave up on everything. It got better but, man, those were some tough years.
I dropped out and gave up on everything. It got better but, man, those were some tough years.